Human Rights - Death Penalty

A vice president of the Supreme People's Court said that was an "evident drop" in the number of death sentences since the Court reclaimed the power to review capital sentences at the beginning of 2007. The number of cases in which the Supreme People's Court refused to allow death penalty was "relatively large", he said. He said the number of death sentences in 2006 was the lowest in the last ten years and the number in the first half of 2007 continued to drop from the same period in 2006.

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